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| 1831 | Jupiter |  |
| The pharmacist Heinrich Schwabe produces the earliest known drawing to show details of the Great Red Spot
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| 1870 | Declaration of War | |
| 13th July Bismarck uses Abeken's telegram to declare war
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| 13th July Ordered by William to telegram Bismarck of the telegram received from Gramont
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| 1900 | Birth | |
| 7th Oct Munich Birth of Heinrich Himmler, near Munich, son of a Schoolmaster
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| 1909 | Dismissal | |
| Dismissed for opposing the naval policies of Heinrich
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| 1909 | Grand Admiral | |
| Appointedrand Admiral
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| 1909 | Inspector General | |
| Appointed Inspector General to the Navy
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| 1914 | Commander | |
| July Appointed Commander of the Baltic Sea naval forces
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| 1919 | Discovery of Barkhausen Law | |
| Discovers discontinuities in the magnetization of ferrous metals
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| 1923 | Munich Beer Hall Putsch | |
| 9th Nov Munich Arrives to take over the War Ministry but cannot gain entrance
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| 9th Nov Munich Carries the "Blutfahne" as the standard bearer
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| 9th Nov Munich Marches alongside Ernst Rohm who the SS would later execute
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| 1923 | NSDAP | |
| Appointed Member of the NSDAP
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| 1925 | Gauleiter | |
| Bavaria Appointed Gauleiter of Lower Bavaria
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| 1925 | Leader Propaganda Himmler | |
| Appointed Propaganda Leader of the Nazis
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| 1929 | Party Leader | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Catholic Centre Party
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| 1929 | Reichfuehrer | |
| 6th Jan Appointed by Hitler to build up a personal bodyguard
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| 6th Jan Appointed Reichshuhrer of the SS, it numbers 200 men
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| 1930 | Article 48 | |
| After an unpopular bill to reform the Reich's finances is left unsupported by the Reichstag, Hindenburg establishes the bill as an emergency decree based on Article 48 of the constitution
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| 1930 | Budget | |
| Berlin Passes the Finance Bill by Presidential decree, cannot win a majority in the Reichstag
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| 1930 | Chancellor | |
| Appointed Chancellor, owes position to the army & General Kurt von Schleicher
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| 29th Mar Chancellors Br］ing, Papen, Schleicher and Hitler are all Presidentially appointed dictatorships
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| 29th Mar Rhineland Heinrich Br］ing is appointed the successor of Chancellor M〕ler by Paul von Hindenburg after months of political lobbying by General Kurt von Schleicher on behalf of the military
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| 1930 | Constitution | |
| After an unpopular bill to reform the Reich's finances is left unsupported by the Reichstag, Hindenburg establishes the bill as an emergency decree based on Article 48 of the constitution
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| 29th Mar Chancellors Br］ing, Papen, Schleicher and Hitler are all Presidentially appointed dictatorships
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| 29th Mar The new government is expected to lead a political shift towards conservatism, based on the emergency powers granted to the Reichsprгident by the constitution, since it had no majority support in the Reichstag
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| 1930 | Economy | |
| Invokes article 48 to impose deflationary policies
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| 1930 | Election | |
| 14th Sep After the election Br］ing attempts to reform the devastated state without a majority in Parliament, governing with the help of the President's emergency decrees
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| 1930 | Occupation | |
| 30th June Rhineland The last Allied troops leave the Rhineland
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| 1930 | Reichstag | |
| 18th July A finance bill is defeated in the Reichstag with the support of the SPD, KPD, the NSDAP and DNVP, Br］ing submits to the Reichstag the president's decree that it will be dissolved
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| 1930 | Vote Confidence | |
| Berlin Bruening is defeated & an election is called for September
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| Berlin The Reichstag rejects Bruening's actions in passing the finance bill
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| 1930 | Weimar Republic | |
| After an unpopular bill to reform the Reich's finances is left unsupported by the Reichstag, Hindenburg establishes the bill as an emergency decree based on Article 48 of the constitution
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| 29th Mar Chancellors Br］ing, Papen, Schleicher and Hitler are all Presidentially appointed dictatorships
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| 29th Mar The new government is expected to lead a political shift towards conservatism, based on the emergency powers granted to the Reichsprгident by the constitution, since it had no majority support in the Reichstag
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| 30th June Rhineland The last Allied troops leave the Rhineland
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| 18th July A finance bill is defeated in the Reichstag with the support of the SPD, KPD, the NSDAP and DNVP, Br］ing submits to the Reichstag the president's decree that it will be dissolved
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| 14th Sep After the election Br］ing attempts to reform the devastated state without a majority in Parliament, governing with the help of the President's emergency decrees
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| 1931 | Chancellor | |
| 13th Oct Berlin Appointed Chancellor of Germany
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| 1931 | Minister | |
| 13th Oct Appointed Foreign Minister
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| 1932 | Jupiter | |
| Rupert Wildt identifies absorption bands of ammonia and methane in the spectra of Jupiter
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| 1932 | Resignation | |
| 29th May Br］ing resigns after no longer having Hindenburg's support
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| 29th May Forced to resign by Hindenburg
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| 1933 | Chief of Police | |
| Munich Appointed Chief of the Munich Police
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| 1933 | Dachau | |
| 22nd Mar Dachau Opens Dachau Concentration Camp for communists & other "political undesireables"
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| 1934 | Asst Chief Gestapo | |
| Appointed Assistant Chief of the Gestapo
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| 1934 | Commander | |
| Berlin Appointed Commander of the Prussian Secret Police
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| 1934 | Gestapo | |
| Appointed Assistant Chief of the Gestapo
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| 1934 | Purge | |
| 29th June Informs Hitler that the SA are planning a coup d'Etat the following afternoon
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| 30th June Berlin Goering & Himmler organize the arrest of the SA in Berlin
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| 1934 | Reform | |
| 20th April Berlin Goering hands over the Gestapo to Himmler
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| 20th April Berlin Himmler has control over the SS, Gestapo (political police) & SD (secret police)
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| 1936 | Gestapo | |
| 17th July Siezes control of the Gestapo
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| 1936 | Health | |
| Berlin Introduces Hitler to Dr Morell
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| 1936 | Reform | |
| 17th June Himmler merges the control of the police & the SS
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| 17th June Hitler places the control of the police forces under Himmler
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| 1938 | Arrest | |
| Nov Berlin Orders the Gestapo to target wealthier Jews, more than 20,000 are taken into custody
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| 1938 | Kristallnacht | |
| Nov Berlin Instructs the Gestapo to liaise with the police to ensure Jewish property is destroyed
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| 1940 | Rule of Poland | |
| Issues a directive to breakup what remains of Poland & its races
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| 1941 | Reform | |
| 3rd Mar Given plenipotentiary powers covering all police actions in occupied territory
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| 13th Mar Given power to act independently & have jurisdiction over the Army Chiefs of Staff
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| 1943 | Concentration Camps | |
| 13th July Appointed Head of concentration camps
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| 1943 | Conference of Posen | |
| 6th Oct In Heinrich Himmler's speech at the Posen Conference Himmler, for the first time, clearly elucidated to all assembled leaders of the Reich, in frank and brutal terms, what the "Final Solution" referred to
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| 1943 | Dachau | |
| Dachau Tells the press Dachau will hold 5,000 because the judicial system cannot cope
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| 22nd Mar Dachau Announces the creation of Dachau near Munich
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| 1943 | Exile | |
| April Surrounds the Hungarian capital with Einsatzgruppen to deport 800,000 Jews
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| 1943 | Final Solution | |
| 6th Oct In Heinrich Himmler's speech at the Posen Conference Himmler, for the first time, clearly elucidated to all assembled leaders of the Reich, in frank and brutal terms, what the "Final Solution" referred to
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| 1943 | Invention V2 Rocket | |
| 22nd Aug Harz Mountains Proposes to setup a secret underground camp in the Harz Mountains to produce V2s
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| 1943 | Minister | |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior
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| 13th July Placed in charge of the concentration camps
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| 1944 | Battle of Aachen | |
| 21st Oct Aachen Attempts to hold the German line to the Swiss border
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| 1945 | Arrest | |
| 25th May Arrested by British troops
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| 1945 | Death | |
| 27th May Commits suicide
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| 1953 | Minister | |
| Appointed Minister of Food, Agriculture & Forestry
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| 1959 | President | |
| Appointed President of Germany
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| 1972 | Nobel Prize | |
| Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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| 1985 | Death | |
| 16th July Death of Heinrich Boll
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